Jan 1 2022 #R4today#Brexit
Trade expert Sam Lowe explains the gnarly new trade rules kicking in, particular risk for small companies and inevitable higher costs.
MK: And what kind of advantages might there be for the UK in this?
Hey! We're all ears! An answer at last?
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SL"Well we go back to the sort of general premise of Brexit; the UK has prioritised having the ability to set its own rules and regulations over having frictionless trade which would require regulatory alignment and giving up some of its autonomy so the question for the UK is 2/4
as it has ever been what does it choose to do with its freedom? So, so, the argument would be that this is a cost and it's an observable cost to businesses but the UK will offset it elsewhere but we're still waiting to see the full picture on that one."
No advantage.
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Next question, then?
MK: Sam Lowe, many thanks.
What? Come on. We're being trolled daily.
We've lost so much. We deserve more interrogation of the issue than that fgs!
@QuislingT You sure are confused. Let me help you.
Here follows a list of ways in which everybody British could use the freedom of movement that we, the British, (only we the British with British parents and grandparents- everyone else with EU passports still has it) have lost. Thread.
@QuislingT to live with a partner we love from any of 27 other countries in any of 27 other countries
to live with our children from any of 27 other countries in any of 27 other countries
@QuislingT to go to 27 other countries for seasonal work, hospitality work, farm work, construction work, care work, childcare, teaching, au pair work, work needing qualifications, work not needing qualifications
23rd June 2016 Five years ago today
The four freedoms: goods, persons, services and capital - all lost.
To commemorate the destruction of our FOM in 27 countries, here's a list.
The treatment of EU citizens in the UK is worthy of another whole thread. #Brexit#23June
Here goes:
British passport holders have lost:
1. Our right as a citizen whether rich or poor, to live in any of 27 other countries whatever our qualifications, connections, background
2. Our right to live with a partner we love from any of 27 other countries in any of 27 other countries
3. Our right to live with our children from any of 27 other countries in any of 27 other countries
4. Our right to bring our EU partner to live with us in the UK
5. Our right to bring our EU children to live with us in the UK
“Unsurprisingly, the value of the UK passport has collapsed, passing from the top 10 to a much more mediocre place: the rights attached to it are now equivalent to Argentine or Brazilian nationalities.”
(Prof Alberto Alemanno, Prof Dimitry Kochenov, open letter, Le Monde)
Their joint open letter begins: “The most dramatic consequence of Brexit is the loss of European citizenship for British people..."
The letter highlights that UK citizens had previously been free to travel in the EU, and even live there, and “had the right to not be discriminated against and to be treated as a national in each EU member state, whatever their nationality”.
Listening to past Labour leaders who have spectacularly not won elections attempting to advise a current labour leader on how to win them, is like asking Icarus for flying lessons.
I haven't the answer. But I can start with a version of the problem.
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Only three Labour leaders have *EVER* won an election: 1) Attlee - immediately after the war, when the population felt like winners on a run of winning 2) 'White heat of technology' - Wilson 3) Education, education, education, opportunity and aspiration - Blair
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No Labour leader has *ever* won appealing to the masses to realise, finally, that they are poor stupid oppressed losers needing a helping hand; 'a govt of the losers, for the losers, by the losers' is hardly going to rally the nation in a tide of optimism.
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OK @uklabour let's actually start a period of reflection.
1. "We won the argument."
No. We didn't. We lost the argument, the argument was derided, the argument was mocked and ridiculed, there was utter contempt for the argument.
Therefore, we were slaughtered as predicted.
2. "It wasn't Corbyn it was Brexit."
They were one and the same. Brexit crap was Corbyn crap, Corbyn crap was Brexit crap. Everyone could see Corbyn was conflicted and had rationalised the situation into pretending indecision was conciliation. It was transparent nonsense.
3. "MSM was biased. Corbyn was attacked unfairly."
This is not a zero-sum game of media/Corbyn. The media *was* biased. But a leader's job is to have a strategy to deal with this. None was evident. Milne's £100k a year job was strategy and communications; what was he doing?